Jason Robards Quotes
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.
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It's fine to be sexy, but you can be sexy without licking a hammer!
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Michael Jordan was that guy - he was Michael Jordan. So whatever he did, we followed.
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Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.
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I don't want actors reasoning with me about 'motivation' and all that bull.
